Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor-elect Nichols has been in politics for many years. The political success that has attended him almost since he graduated from Harvard was in the forefront of the Boston mayoralty fight Tuesday. Mr. Nichols, one of a field of ten struggling candidates, emerged an easy victor. His plurality of 21,790 votes is the largest received by any candidate for the office in many years...
...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...
...football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss of the sons. There are always plenty of sons...
Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere...
...When the present outdoor sports are over, and the indoor schedule starts, Freshmen will be allowed to elect hiking as a form of exercise. This sport will be supervised, and we shall try to arrange trips that are interesting to everyone...